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GOAT HANGER.

N0.,374,035. Patented Nov. 29, 1887.

UNITED, STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

'WISNER B. BISBEE, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

COAT-HANGER.

SPECIPICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 374,035, dated November 29, 1887.

' Application filed March 7, 1884. Serial No. 123,329. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, WISNER B. .BISBEE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Lowe11, in the county of Middlesex and Commoncompass.

. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view' of a folding coat-hanger provided with a hathook, the hanger being extended ready for use; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the same folded for transportation; Fig. 3, a top view of the same extended, the dotted lines indicating ditt'erent positions of the supporting-hook and hat-hook; Figs. 4 and 5, respectively, a side and a front elevation of the coil or hinge detached; Fig. 6, a front elevation of the coil or hinge detached and folded; Fig. 7, a front view of the divided brace and locking tube or sleeve; Fig. 8, a front elevation of a modified form of my invention.

The invention herein shown and described is an improvement 011 the coat-hanger which forms the subject of United States Letters Patent No. 254,451, granted to me March 7, 1882.

shoulder pieces or loops A A, extended from front to back to form a broad bearing for garments suspended thereon, and each provided with a twist, V, at the ends of the loops, the hat-hook T, swinging in the coil E, and the half-circle Y are all substantially as shown and described in said patent. The brace B serves the same purpose when the hanger is in use as the corresponding part in said patcut, but in this invention is divided into. two unequal parts, b b, so that one shoulder-piece may be turned around over the other," the parts or separate wires of the coil E slipping upon each other and turning about the shank P of the hat-hook T as about the pintle of a hinge.

In order that the hanger may fold until one shoulder-piece is entirely over the'other, only one half-circle Y is used, instead of the two The suspending-hook C, connected by. a swivel or socket, F, to the hanger, the.

plane with each other and with the half-circle Y, and therefore both on the same side of the shank of the hook O and shank of the hook T, the relative position of said parts D D being shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The wires of the coil E being wound spirally, the act of folding the hanger will cause one of the shoulder-pieces to be raised above the other and to overlie the other, the shoulder-pieces coming again to their normal position and the adjacent ends of the parts?) I) of the brace B coming into line with each other when the hanger is subsequently extended for use. When the hanger has been so extended, the tube If, surrounding the longer part b of the brace, is pushed over the joint or adjacent ends of the parts of the brace, as shown in Figs. 1 and 7, and stiffens the brace.

In the modification shown in Fig. 8 the socket F, half-circle Y, and the hat-hook T are omitted, and the coil E serves as a socket for the suspending-hook, and, with the shank of said hook as a pin tle, also forms the hinge which connects the halves of the hanger.

other respects the hanger shown in Fig. 8 is like that shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and above described.

. The advantage to travelers of a coat-hanger that shall occupy small space in a trunk or yalise; and which, when in use, is of proper size and as firmly braced as the ordinary hanger, is obvious.

. I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the shoulder-pieces, a pintle, and two spiral coils, one united to each shoulder-piece, said coils being adapted to turn upon each other around said pintle, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the shoulder-pieces, the divided.brace, the lockingtube, and a hinge connecting said shoulder-pieces, as and for the purpose specified.

vVISNER B. BISBEE.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, E. W. THOMPSON. 

